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News
Marketplace
Week of February 14
Marketplace (PM)
- Kai speaks to Elizabeth Spaulding, the CEO of Stitch Fix.
- Kai talks with Chef Maria Mercedes Grubb about Puerto Rico’s restaurant industry.
Marketplace Tech
- Kimberly Adams continues to serve as the interim host of Marketplace Tech.
- February 14: On Valentine’s Day, Kimberly Adams speaks with Richard Gargan, BeenVerified, about how romance scams on dating apps have proliferated in the last few years.
- February 15: Kimberly Adams speaks with Jacob Ward, NBC News Tech Correspondent, about the dangers of relying on predictive algorithms, as detailed in his new book The Loop
On Point
On February 14-18, On Point will feature a five-part series – More than Money: The Cost of Monopolies in America. Find a :29 generic series promo here on ContentDepot.
- February 14: To kick off the week’s series we are looking at one of the largest monopolies in America – the beef industry. It’s a $67 billion market controlled by just four big companies. When competition is removed – who benefits? Guests include Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), VP of the US Cattlemen’s Association and cow-calf producer Justin Tupper, and head of the advocacy group Ranchers-Cattlemen Action Legal Fund and former rancher Bill Bullard.
- February 15: We examine Microsoft’s acquisition of video game company Activision Blizzard to ask whether it’s time to redefine the danger of monopolies as one that goes beyond economic harm to consumer harm.
- February 16: We find out about monopolies from the founding of the nation through the early 19th Century, when Washington started passing major anti-trust legislation to cut giant monopolies like Standard Oil down to size. And if you ever wondered why such laws are called ‘antitrust’ instead of ‘anti-monopoly,’ tune in.
- February 17: Our focus is American monopolies in the modern age. We examine the shift in attitude towards American monopolies, from Robert Bork’s famous 1978 book The Antitrust Paradox to today’s youngest ever chair of the Federal Trade Commission, Lina Khan, who has been assertive in wanting to rein in monopoly power.
- February 18: Finally, we examine the shift in thinking of monopolies as purely a threat to consumers, to a threat to democracy itself. Matt Stoller, author of Goliath: The Hundred Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy tells us that “we are now in a situation where we…have the ornamental framework of a liberal democracy, we have political freedoms, but on the commercial side, there is massive amounts of bribery and corruption and retaliation that is against the idea of living in a free society.” So, what must change in our laws and enforcement to ensure democracy is safe from corporate power?
Classical
Performance Today
- February 14: Performance Today’s Valentine’s Day will have songs about love of family, love of self, romantic and passionate love, tragic love vs. hopeful love. Listeners will hear a little Spanish guitar, the Poem of Ecstasy by Scriabin as well as a former PT Young Artist performance of excerpts from Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet.
Arts and Culture
Time Machine from The Current
February 18 – 1970
- The Time Machine treks back to the 1970’s for a special Valentine’s Day inspired episode. I am featuring some of the best Love songs of the 1970’s! In the Country music world, Dolly Parton recorded what is probably her biggest song of her long-storied career, meanwhile, The Bellamy Brothers had a big crossover hit. The Beatles had called it a day, but both Paul McCartney and George Harrison came out of the gate with excellent albums. While you may have tried to dance like John Travolta in the film Saturday Night Fever, you may have also slow-danced to Bee Gees. It was a great decade for Soul music. Many were romancing to the music of Al Green and Stevie Wonder. Roberta Flack won several Grammys for her take on an English folk song, speaking of covers…there were some good ones! Nilsson recorded a song by Badfinger, The Hollies cut an Albert Hammond song and The Captain and Tennille got hold of an old Neil Sedaka tune to huge success. It’s all 70’s Love songs on Time Machine from The Current.
The Splendid Table
NEW episode – February 18
- This week, we talk to journalist Dan Saladino who travelled the world talking to people for his new book, Eating to Extinction: The World’s Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them. The list is an amazing one, from coffee in Bolivia, to pigs in China, to cheese in Albania. It is both a celebration of the world’s biodiversity and a call to action.
Timely Selections
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Love at the Movies
Broadcast Window: February 1, 2022 – February 28, 2022
Length: One hour
A special Valentine’s Day program and offshoot of the weekly national program Saturday Cinema, Love at the Movies is an hour of classic movie scores from romantic films, rom-coms, animated love stories and more.
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